LOCKE, John.
Some Thoughts Concerning Education. The ninth edition.Dublin: printed by Will. Forrest. 1728 [6], 325, [17]pp, engr. portrait frontispiece. 12mo. Full contemporary panelled calf, central panel with small tulip cornerpiece decorations, raised bands, red morocco label. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort. Nice copy.ESTC T155625; 2 copies only, Liverpool and Nat. Lib. Ireland. Two Dublin 9th editions were published in 1728, one by William Forrest, and the other by S. Powell. This copy, although bearing the Forrest imprint, has the frontispiece which is only noted in the Powell printing. The collation suggests that the ten-page subscribers' list is here bound at the end, and it also has the recorded mis-numbering of pages 264 and 265. The Powell printing, ESTC T175208, is also scarce, recorded in only 3 copies, BL, Cambridge & Oxford. This is the first Irish edition of this work, and with a 1728 Dublin
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